Re: School stories

On Sat, 4 Apr 2026 01:52:47 +0100, [email protected] (Sn!pe) wrote:

>Liz Tuddenham <[email protected]> wrote:
>[...]
>> > > Kipling wrote about the hazing of the younger students by the older ones.
>> > > In 'Surprised by Joy' Lewis strongly hints there was a sexual element.
>> > 
>> > It was punishable by expulsion if it was found out.
>> > 'bestiality' (masturbation) was an expulsion event.
>> 
>> I thought "bestiality" was specifically having sex with animals.
>
>Our school headmaster called it "beastliness".

If my memory is correct, in those other school stories, by "Frank
Richards" (pseudonym for an anonymous team of writers, like "Franklin
W, Dixon"), "beastliness" was how his friends treated the fat owl of
the Remove" (I never did discover what the "Remove" was). 


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